Thursday, November 15, 2012
Dan Agin
I defines junk science as extensively corrupted science, science corrupted in objectivity and/or method, the corruption either deliberate or involving sloppy methods or due to ignorance of what science is about, the outcome useless conclusions that makes false statements about the natural world.
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Example of fraud:
ReplyDeleteAs far as understanding junk science is concerned, the important aspect is that both Bell Laboratories and the international physics community were fooled until someone noticed that noise records published by Jan Hendrik Schön in several papers were identical – which means physically impossible.
Example of ignorance:
Since no such proof is possible [that genetically modified food is harmless], the article in The New York Times was what is called a “bad rap” against the U.S. Department of Agriculture – a bad rap based on a junk-science belief that it’s possible to prove a null hypothesis.
Junk Science
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